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Pretest: Modern World History

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 4hrs 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the name for the belief that the King had been chosen by God?

a)

Primogeniture

b)

Baptism

c)

Divine Right

d)

Excommunication

2.

What was the focus of the Renaissance philosophy of humanism?

a)

Human Achievement

b)

Religious Authority

c)

Royal Authority

d)

Military Strength

3.

What was the chief complaint of the 95 Theses?

a)

Unfair taxations

b)

Unequal distribution of wealth

c)

No political representation

d)

Paying of indulgences

4.

A dispute over divorce caused which of the following to break with the Catholic Church?

a)

John Calvin

b)

Henry VIII

c)

Charles V

d)

Martin Luther

5.

What series of meetings among Catholic officials would seek to fix the issues within the Catholic Church?

a)

Council of Nicaea

b)

Congress of Vienna

c)

National Assembly

d)

Council of Trent

6.

The theory that the sun, not the Earth, was at the center of the universe is known as...

a)

Geocentric

b)

Ptolemaic

c)

Heliocentric

d)

Astrological

7.

During the Age of Exploration, the focus was on finding a water trade route from Europe to what continent?

a)

Americas

b)

Australia

c)

Asia

d)

Africa

8.

Which of the following continents was not part of the Triangle Trade?

a)

Americas

b)

Europe

c)

Asia

d)

Africa

9.

The Middle Passage brought most African slaves to what area of the world?

a)

North America

b)

South American

c)

The Caribbean

d)

Europe

10.

Which social contract theorist, who wrote Leviathan, believed people were naturally evil?

a)

Locke

b)

Hobbes

c)

Voltaire

d)

Beccaria

11.

Which French philosopher believed in freedom of speech and freedom of religion?

a)

Voltaire

b)

Locke

c)

Montesquieu

d)

Rousseau

12.

Which Enlightenment idea helped to control power between different branches of government?

a)

Checks and balances

b)

Direct democracy

c)

Social contract

d)

Universal suffrage

13.

Who believed it was the job of the government to protect people's rights and if the government did not, it was the right of the people to rebel and overthrow the government?

a)

Voltaire

b)

Locke

c)

Montesquieu

d)

Rousseau

14.

Who was the French queen that, like her husband, was killed as an enemy of the French Revolution?

a)

Elizabeth I

b)

Catherine of Aragon

c)

Marie Antionette

d)

Anne Boleyn

15.

The majority of French citizens belonged to which estate?

a)

1st Estate

b)

2nd Estate

c)

3rd Estate

d)

4th Estate

16.

A period of mass killings of those opposed to the French Revolution was known as the …

a)

Great Purge

b)

Inquisition

c)

Reign of Terror

d)

Coup d'état

17.

Where did Napoleon have his final military defeat?

a)

Russia

b)

Waterloo

c)

St. Helena

d)

Cyprus

18.

What meeting of nations was held to try and bring lasting peace to Europe following the Napoleonic wars?

a)

Berlin Conference

b)

Yalta Conference

c)

Paris Peace Conference

d)

Congress of Vienna

19.

Which of the following inventions most impacted both industrialization and transportation?

a)

Cotton Gin

b)

Flying Shuttle

c)

Light Bulb

d)

Steam Engine

20.

Which of the following is not a factor of production?

a)

Labor

b)

Consumer

c)

Land

d)

Capital

21.

Harsh working conditions and issues such as child labor led to the formation of what economic system?

a)

Capitalism

b)

Libertarianism

c)

Mercantilism

d)

Socialism

22.

What motivated Europeans to conquer and form colonies in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East?

a)

Resources

b)

Isolationism

c)

Alliances

d)

Communism

23.

The Berlin Conference was held among European nations to decide...

a)

How to divide Africa

b)

How to conquer Russia

c)

How to divide China

d)

How to avoid wars

24.

Which two nations had the largest empires in Africa during the Age of Imperialism?

a)

Russia & France

b)

Germany & France

c)

Britain & France

d)

Spain & France

25.

Which of the following was not a cause of WWI?

a)

Fascism

b)

Imperialism

c)

Alliance Systems

d)

Militarism

26.

Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian nationalist, started WWI by assassinating...

a)

Franz Ferdinand

b)

Wilhelm II

c)

Otto von Bismarck

d)

Nicholas II

27.

All of the following were members of the Central Powers except...

a)

Germany

b)

Austria-Hungary

c)

Russia

d)

Ottoman Empire

28.

The purpose of the Schlieffen Plan was to keep Germany from having to...

a)

Defend its borders

b)

Rely on naval power

c)

Fight on two fronts simultaneously

d)

Move its troops over great distances

29.

Which of the following was not a reason that the U.S. joined WWI?

a)

Sinking of the Lusitania

b)

Assassination of the Archduke

c)

Zimmerman Note

d)

Unrestricted submarine warfare

30.

Who led the Russian Revolution?

a)

Nicholas II

b)

Karl Marx

c)

Joseph Stalin

d)

Vladimir Lenin

31.

What international organization was formed after WWI to prevent future wars?

a)

United Nations

b)

League of Nations

c)

Amnesty International

d)

Fourteen Points

32.

Treaty of Versailles punished which nations most severely for causing WWI?

a)

Austria-Hungary

b)

Russia

c)

Ottoman Empire

d)

Germany

33.

Which totalitarian leader was responsible for the Great Purge, collective farming, and the Five Year Plan?

a)

Benito Mussolini

b)

Joseph Stalin

c)

Adolf Hitler

d)

Francisco Franco

34.

Who led the fight for freedom i India through acts of civil disobedience?

a)

Jiang Jieshi

b)

Mohandas Gandhi

c)

Francisco Franco

d)

Mao Zedong

35.

During WWII, Great Britain and France declared war in response to the German invasion of what country?

a)

Poland

b)

Austria

c)

Czechoslovakia

d)

France

36.

Who inspired the British through his leadership during the Battle of Britain?

a)

Charles de Gaulle

b)

Winston Churchill

c)

Adolf Hitler

d)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

37.

What WWII battle was a key turning point on the Eastern Front?

a)

Battle of El Alamein

b)

Battle of Midway

c)

Battle of the Bulge

d)

Battle of Stalingrad

38.

The American invasion into France via the beaches of Normandy became known as...

a)

D-Day

b)

VE-Day

c)

VJ-Day

d)

Armistice Day

39.

What Japanese city was the first to be hit with the atomic bomb?

a)

Kyoto

b)

Tokyo

c)

Hiroshima

d)

Osaka

40.

Over a million Jews and others were killed at which of the following Nazi extermination caps?

a)

Dachau

b)

Treblinka

c)

Warsaw

d)

Auschwitz

41.

Which of the following was addressed by the Nuremberg Trials?

a)

The Holocaust

b)

Nuclear bombing of Japan

c)

Firebombing of Dresden

d)

Interment of Japanese-Americans

42.

The division between the Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe and the U.S.-aligned West was called...

a)

Great Divide

b)

No Man's Land

c)

The Western Front

d)

The Iron Curtain

43.

Who won the Chinese Civil War and became the first leader of Communist China?

a)

Jiang Jieshi

b)

Ho Chi Minh

c)

Mao Zedong

d)

Kim Jong Il

44.

The policy of threatening to go to nuclear war in response to any enemy aggression was called...

a)

Total War

b)

Glasnost

c)

Blitzkrieg

d)

Brinkmanship

45.

The Third World included all of the following areas except...

a)

Africa

b)

Asia

c)

Latin America

d)

Europe

46.

Who was the Soviet Premier during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

a)

Joseph Stalin

b)

Lenoid Brezhnev

c)

Nikita Khrushchev

d)

Boris Yeltsin

47.

Most of the conflict in the Middle East centers around Muslim countries hating which nation?

a)

Iran

b)

Israel

c)

Iraq

d)

Lebanon

48.

The breakup of what nation was the result of tensions between Serbs, Croats, and Bosnians?

a)

Chechnya

b)

Yugoslavia

c)

Russia

d)

Czechoslovakia

49.

The term "ethnic cleansing" is another word for...

a)

Genocide

b)

Terrorism

c)

Glasnost

d)

Civil Disobedience

50.

The civil war of what African nation involved Hutus killing Tutsis?

a)

Ethiopia

b)

Sudan

c)

Rwanda

d)

Libya